Ōtoku
E439902
Ōtoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the late 11th century, used during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ōtoku canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4419556 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ōtoku Context triple: [Emperor Shirakawa, eraNameUsedDuringReign, Ōtoku]
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A.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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B.
Gotō
Gotō is a Japanese surname borne by various notable figures in politics, business, and the arts.
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C.
Tokoro
Tokoro is a coastal district of Kitami City in Hokkaido, Japan, known historically for its fishing industry and drift ice along the Sea of Okhotsk.
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D.
Machimura
Machimura is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Nobutaka Machimura, a prominent Liberal Democratic Party politician and former foreign minister of Japan.
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E.
Miyazu
Miyazu is a coastal city in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, best known as the gateway to the scenic sandbar Amanohashidate, one of Japan’s traditional “Three Views.”
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ōtoku Target entity description: Ōtoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the late 11th century, used during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa.
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A.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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B.
Gotō
Gotō is a Japanese surname borne by various notable figures in politics, business, and the arts.
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C.
Tokoro
Tokoro is a coastal district of Kitami City in Hokkaido, Japan, known historically for its fishing industry and drift ice along the Sea of Okhotsk.
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D.
Machimura
Machimura is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Nobutaka Machimura, a prominent Liberal Democratic Party politician and former foreign minister of Japan.
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E.
Miyazu
Miyazu is a coastal city in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, best known as the gateway to the scenic sandbar Amanohashidate, one of Japan’s traditional “Three Views.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| capitalCity |
Heian-kyō
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| century | 11th century ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endDate | 1087-12 ⓘ |
| endMonth | December ⓘ |
| endYear | 1087 ⓘ |
| eraNameFor | Emperor Shirakawa ⓘ |
| eraSequenceInHeianPeriod | late Heian period ⓘ |
| eraSystem | Japanese nengō system ⓘ |
| follows | Jōryaku ⓘ |
| governmentForm |
Imperial court of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial court of Japan (historically)
|
| historicalPeriod | Heian period ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| namedAfter | auspicious phrase in classical Chinese ⓘ |
| precedes | Kanji ⓘ |
| region |
Yamato (Japan)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yamato
|
| startDate | 1084-02 ⓘ |
| startMonth | February ⓘ |
| startYear | 1084 ⓘ |
| usedDuringReignOf | Emperor Shirakawa ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japanese calendar ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ōtoku Description of subject: Ōtoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the late 11th century, used during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.